The food industry has found yet another method of transforming God's miraculous bounty into disease-inflicting toxins; and this time, they even did it to the best food that natural medicine has to offer: flax seed.

When untainted and unadulterated by the food industry, flax seed oil seems to have virtually countless miraculous health generating properties, which are widely yet falsely believed to stem from the oil's supposed omega-3 content.  Technically, flax seeds and flax seed oil do not actually contain true omega-3's.  Flax seed oil instead contains alpha-linolenic acid (A.L.A.), which a body's enzymes use as a raw material to synthesize its own E.P.A. and D.H.A. (omega-3 oils) in exactly the amounts needed to balance (even neutralize) the inflammatory omega-6 oils that are so common in our diets.  These facts make flax seed oil superior to fish oil supplements for getting both the exact amount of needed omega-3's, and for getting absolutely pure omega-3's into the body.  For these reasons, we have always only recommended flax seed oil for omega-3 supplements.  It could very well be the most important supplement that a person should take, and it literally is a cure for cancer.

The polyunsaturated fats include vegetable oils such as soy, corn, safflower, canola, sesame seed, sunflower, and flax seed oil.  Unfortunately, they all have a fatal weakness.  These oils are easily damaged upon exposure to light, heat, or oxygen.   You may want to remember this before cooking with any of these oils.  Flax seed oil is especially sensitive.  You may have noticed that bottles of flax seed oil are always stored in dark bottles, and are kept refrigerated.  This is done for very good reason.  If exposed to heat, light, or oxygen, then the oil will quickly become rancid.  Rotten is perhaps a better word.  It will develop a profuse odor, and will be highly toxic to the point of being a carcinogen.  It can actually become a trans fat in the process, or worse.  Chemically, it becomes much different from the original oil.  It is wise to immediately discard all such oils.

Since flax products have earned such a reputation for fostering improved health, the food industry is offering a plethora of flax seed based foods.  In fact, we saw a variety of food items such as cereals, based and marketed upon the inclusion of baked flax seeds.  Instead of merely perverting the healthy flax oils with heat, they should have gone all-out by making the product radioactive too, and calling the radiation special "healing energy".  Surely these companies have to know what they are doing, for these food empires have huge R&D departments.

What is even more incredible is the products that have whole flax seeds, such as granola bars.  As a general rule, flax seeds are very difficult to digest, unless they are first ground into a powder, and to prevent rancidity, it must be ground just prior to consumption.  Usually the whole seeds just pass without any digestion, which burdens the digestive system severely.  The seeds also contain cyanogenic glycosides, which the body transforms to thiocynanates.  These neutralize iodine.  Thus, these whole seed products are not exactly healthy either.  It is as if these companies are competing to see which one of them can make the biggest fools out of us.  The marketing departments are certainly having a blast.

Once again, they have found a way to toxify a healthy food, and then con us into eating it.  Judging from history causes us to have serious doubts that any of this is accidental, and we are seeing this stuff in even health food stores, such as Whole Food's Market.  There is something almost sacrilegious about tainting flax, so we are asking our readers to boycott companies producing baked flax foods, in addition to those using soy and canola.

Our Omega-3 Recommendation

We recommend that omega-3 supplements be consumed in the form of individual light resistant capsules to protect the oil from heat, light, and oxygen.  It should have also been cold pressed.  Buy it and all other supplements from health food and herbal retailers only, unless you are shopping with the Internet.  The products usually found in regular retailers have serious quality control and potency control issues.  Especially avoid 'U.S.P.' supplements, made by, and approved by the pharmaceutical industry.